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by smat 11mo ago
Check out Asahi Linux, they run on Apple Silicon and have translation for 32 and 64 bit x86, so they even go further than what Rosetta achieved. Open Source as well.
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by smat 1y ago
A very interesting read. The article states that they added a computational correction step which is run whenever a result might be incorrect but skip it most of the time. I am wondering whether this might cause problems for small real-time
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by smat 1y ago
Great post, the fusion of scale with unit is a mess. When using it as a factor, for example when describing attenuation or amplification it is fine and can be used similar to percent. Though the author is right - it would be even more elega
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by smat 2y ago
While this gives an impressive boost in performance, it also means that frametimes are around 10% longer when the status bar has to be updated. Overall this can mean that in some situations the game feels not as smooth as before due to thes
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by smat 2y ago
Nordic semiconductor also has microcontrollers with BT and Wifi. They are much less common than espressifs solution though.
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by smat 2y ago
Though this is an artificial constraint imposed by the platform holders (i.e. Apple and Google). Once they figured out how their new AI assistant needs to look like their own rules for 3rd party apps won’t matter anymore.
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by smat 3y ago
I could see that in the coming years the value of Waymo for Google is not actually in collecting revenue from transportation fees but to collect multi modal data to feed into its models. The amount of data that is collected by these cars is
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by smat 3y ago
You are right it feels off. The position of the guitar in stereo is all over the place, higher frequency elements appear to come from the left while other parts are more centered.
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by smat 3y ago
At the same time France had to buy loads of electricity from Germany in the last year because several nuclear plants had to shut down due to a) maintenance problems and b) low rivers that could not provide sufficient cooling.
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by smat 3y ago
You also pay for quality control. Cheaper brands often have decent audio quality on average but high variation in between individual pairs of headphones. They also tend to fall apart after 1-2 years of use in my experience.
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by smat 3y ago
You can modulate the brightness without flicker, you can try it yourself with a lab power supply. It is just that filtering the output of the regulator is “expensive” as you need a relatively large capacitor. If this is omitted in combinati
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by smat 3y ago
I assume the author of the library works under a hard real-time constraint. Under such circumstances (an example would be low latency audio) you can not tolerate the latency impact of a sporadic syscall.
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by smat 4y ago
According to an article at Ars [0], longer sessions are more likely to output undesired responses from bing chat. So the limits might simply be a workaround to avoid articles about strange behaviour. [0] https://arstechnica.com&#
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by smat 4y ago
I would argue that the people who use AI generated assets and combine them for a bigger thing such as a video game are still artists. They are simply realizing their vision on a higher level.
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by smat 4y ago
Boston dynamics also published a making of video. There it is explained why the luggage scenario is still far away: The robot has perfect knowledge of the object it is transporting (size and weight distribution). In order to be able to tran
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by smat 4y ago
They are using a combination of lidar with HD maps, radar and cameras.
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by smat 4y ago
Is there a list of functions for newlib?
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by smat 4y ago
Very interesting read. The author notes that double pumping the 512 bit instructions to 256 bit execution units appears to be a good trade-off. As far as I understood ARMs new SIMD instruction set is able to map to execution units of arbitr
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by smat 4y ago
I am also curious how this period in movies will hold over time. Older movies with more practical effects (such as Star Wars) still have a very crisp look to them while newer movies look blurry and bloomy due to the heavy post processing.
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by smat 4y ago
Appears to be common industry practice at least for entry level devices. My old HP has the same behavior. Cannot scan with a defective print head.
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by smat 4y ago
While the ideal filters have an infinite long inpulse response and are therefore „non realizable“, shorter filters simply increase the noise level. With filters of 100ms length you are already at SNRs that is far from what any human can han
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by smat 4y ago
Fraunhofer is an institution in Germany positioned between universities and the industry. They provide applied research and license it to companies. For example mp3 was mainly developed there. They hold many patents in the field of audio an
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by smat 4y ago
I did not mean to discourage people from making their own evaluations. Maybe I did not word it correctly. The article starts with questioning best practices for implementing real-time processing threads. The statistical analysis presented i
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by smat 4y ago
Not sure what this empirical analysis adds to answer the initial question. Sure, modern computers are fast and modern operating systems are designed to reduce latency. At the same time the “best practices” of not using mutexes and malloc on
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by smat 4y ago
Signal offers to validate public keys of contacts via a separate channel (QR codes) to detect MITM attacks. The second claim is that the ciphers used are outdated. A counter-claim that can be made here is that signal relies on well establis
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by smat 4y ago
At the same time the investment in epic is only a very tiny fraction of tencents market cap. So it does not make sense to invest in tencent if you are interested in epic.
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by smat 5y ago
Wifi6 adds QAM1024 as a modulation, so under excellent condition its downlink will be faster. Many of the changes aim at high density environments, such as trade fairs and conference centers. Once the majority of devices are upgraded, these
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by smat 5y ago
Germany is even worse than you describe. The pension system managed by the government is not backed by any assets at all, but works by taking from the working population to the retired population. Given the age distribution in Germany this
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by smat 5y ago
Not sure which aspect the earlier post meant but the rays are only refracting on the exit surface, when of course they also refract on the entry surface.
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by smat 5y ago
I think he does though. He mentions that many assets are priced on a level that is only realistic if interest rates remain on the current level for decades.

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